From the NS archive: New Woman
2 October 1964: Anti-domestic, anti-romantic and rather anti-men: there is an outburst of programmes on women in society.
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The success of women’s football is feminist revolution by stealth
The effect of seeing women footballers win will radically alter equality between girls and boys.
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Why I haven’t been watching the 2022 Women’s Euros
I was a devoted footballer as a child, often the only girl on the team. So why can’t I fully…
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Judith Butler on Roe vs Wade, trans rights and the war on education
The philosopher and gender theorist says the restriction of abortion rights is part of a project to restore patriarchy.
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Don’t make the Tory leadership contest about the trans culture war
Women care more about abortion, female employment and violence against us.
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Why men don’t get Roe vs Wade
Women feel the threat to our abortion rights viscerally, in our bones.
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To protect abortion rights, don’t let the UK ditch the ECHR
Privacy campaigners warn metadata could put Americans seeking abortions at risk of prosecution. Is Europe any safer?
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Emma Thompson’s new film is an absurd view of what a middle-aged woman’s life is worth
In Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Nancy says that paying for sex has been her only adventure in life.…
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: liberal feminism under attack
Louise Perry’s new book is a provocative denunciation of pornified culture and sex positivity.
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Why Everything I Know About Love leaves men baffled
The BBC TV drama based on Dolly Alderton’s memoir captures a female millennial reality that certain men struggle to understand.
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If Boris Johnson was a woman, he’d never get away with so much
Imagine a female prime minister with a reputation for partying, promiscuity and messy hair.
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Feminists must abandon their delusions about the sexual revolution
Men and women are not the same, and it is usually women who suffer when we pretend otherwise.
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Is there a woman out there who likes her body?
1 May 2000: The complex politics of cosmetic surgery begs the question – when will society judge us at more…
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Mumsnet’s founder Justine Roberts: “It is a place where women can speak the truth”
The parenting forum has become a powerful political force, and has been repeatedly accused of transphobia. Its CEO explains why…
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Anti-abortion campaigners don’t see women as people
When governments take rights away from us, we’re controlled and dehumanised.
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Are women more emotional than men?
Kenny Shiels seemed upset his “emotional” football team lost a match. He should try a good, hard cry.
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Why has it taken tragedy to stop the NHS pushing for “natural” births?
During my three days in labour I asked for a c-section countless times. I felt forgotten about, in danger and…
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How a new wave of literature is reclaiming spinsterhood
The unmarried woman has long been derided in popular culture and beyond. Now single women are telling their side of…
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“Darwin’s cultural bias was laced into his science”: Lucy Cooke on why evolutionary biology needs feminism
In her new book Bitch, the zoologist re-evaluates the myth of female submission in the animal kingdom.
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In Sexual Revolution, Laurie Penny wages war against bad sex
This broad, ambitious book skilfully skewers everyday sexism, but Penny’s feminist uprising underestimates those they wish to save.
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